professional looking icons

This is a discussion on professional looking icons within the A Brief History of Cprogramming.com forums, part of the Community Boards category; Where do all these big software companies (Microsoft, etc.) get all these complex looking icons? I can only make simple ...

I think he means (and even so, I mean) that where do they get their ideas from, I think that making an icon must be easy, but making a good one is tough, check for example the Icon for morpheus(nothing personal), but it really sucks!